Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-06-04
pnnnhlican Paners on sherman.


Dir. SHERMAN segin his campaign for the
Republican nomination so soon that he will
have time to trim his sails TO catch the pOpu'
lar breeze. We opne that he will revise
his campaign speech, aud make 1t very
different document from the one he de
livercd in Springfield few DAYS ago. The
Providence journal, the leading Republi'
can paper in Rhode Island, talks to Dir.
SHERMAN a. follows:
"Politics, il should be remembered, is
contemporary history, not past history.
The Republican party cannot be carried on
TO victory simply because OF lis past record,
however proud nor can the Democrats be
defeated by calling them COnfederates. 50
far as its potency Us a rallying cry TO the
Young voters Of to-day is concerned, one
might as well cali them Guelphs, or by the
name OF any other party that is dead and
zone. For il is not true that Confederate
ideas and principles are still dominant in
the south. II is not true, as the speaker
sid, that but for Democratic murder. ar
sor. and ballot-boX stufllng' ia southern
States James G.. Blaine would now be hold
ing Mir. CIeyelaud's office. There Is an
other and more significant reason for the
result in 1884, and Senator sherman, II he
assumes to speak for the Republican party,
cannot afford to ignore it.
"Ibe distinguished speaker was hardly
more fortunate in setting forth the essential
difference between the two parties. The
thought running through all his COMPARE
sons in this regard l. that the Democrats
stand for strict construction OF the Con.
stitution and for thorough. going local self
government, while the Republicans, both
IN record and in principle, are committed TO
that very liberal construction which per-
mits the Government to assume a
Maternal care over the local Interests
OF oil the States. Now 1t is true
that the Democratic party, in It's I'M
compromising demand for locat autonomy.
is always likely to oyerstep the bounds Of
proper State rights aud dissolve the Union
into its elements. But 1t is not true that
the Republican party Is 50 far at the other
extreme as the Senator declares. The IN
telligent and progressive members OF the
patty believe, with Senator Ha~ley, OF
Connecticut, In a Just degree Of local re-
spopsibiliy and in toe Abandonment OF that
IA ernsli,m 10 government towards which,
as Geutrsl Butler said the other day. there
Is lust now an III omeDed tendency in
American legislation"
IL Is favorable sign when such ilepub-
llcsn paper as the Journal can take so
cain, Philosophical. and statesman-like a
view Of national matters.
We quote now the Philadelphia 1ete
qroph, an independent Republican paper.
IL says:
"The burden of Hon. John Sherman's
address Of Yesterday was demagogic APP
peal 10 the passions OF the civil war. Pos
sibly all that Mi. SHERMAN said ab0,H the
Confederate ideas Of The Democratic party
may lie literally, strictly, and unequiyocllly
true, and yeL Il was oluuder for bin TO
state the case as he did state It.; Tor pro-
found atmosphere OF humbuggery en-
yelopf d the whole Of this part OF his speech.
There is Il not an Intelligent man from Miine
10 California, who, on reading this portion OF
the Illinois address, will not recognize II as
lid for votes, and as worth 10 the speaker
fewer yOtss than can be counted upon the
fingers OF one hand For certainly by sucb
demacogic utterances Us those referred 10
MIR. sherman will not win, for himself or
for biz party, votes that " ouid not be given
in any event; while as certainly he will
disgust the people who do toeir own think
ipg, and wifi increase their disposition to
very critically regard the Republican out
look aud the character Of the Republican
candidate, whoever he may be-"